{"id":4197,"date":"2019-07-30T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T07:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"rangers-unsung-heroes-of-wildlife-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/30\/rangers-unsung-heroes-of-wildlife-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers\u2014Unsung Heroes Of Wildlife Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By the UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that population numbers of mountain gorillas have doubled in the last 30 years thanks to the effective protection of their habitats by rangers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are many angles from which we can look at the\nimportant work of rangers and eco-guards,\u201d says Johannes Refisch, the UN\nEnvironment Programme\u2019s coordinator of the Great Apes Survival Partnership.\n\u201cMountain gorillas are a fantastic example: not a single mountain gorilla was\nkilled in the last 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2018, the International Union for the\nConservation of Nature declared the mountain gorilla no longer &#8220;critically\nendangered&#8221;. It has been reclassified as &#8220;endangered&#8221; due to\nconservation efforts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/rangers-unsung-heroes-wildlife-conservation\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the UN Environment Did you know that population numbers of mountain gorillas have doubled in the last 30 years thanks to the effective protection of their habitats by rangers?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}